How were people before the time of Jesus saved?

[1stcenturylady]

Hebrews is written to professed NT. believers who were in danger of apostasy, desiring to go back under the OT.
you said this; in post 147
Hebrews was written under a different covenant.

I think you are misunderstanding ewq. He was responding to your scriptures about OT sacrifices, not that the whole book of Hebrews was OT.

 

[ewq1938]

Hebrews is written to professed NT. believers who were in danger of apostasy, desiring to go back under the OT.
you said this; in post 147
Hebrews was written under a different covenant.

Yes it was not written under the old covenant but the new covenant. Nothing here is incorrect.

 

[BNR32FAN]

Yes, I agree with you. But there are many who look at "imputed righteousness" as 'we remain unrighteous, and righteousness is just imputed to us' like the coat of the prodigal son over filthiness. It sounds very religious to say Jesus does it all, and He does, but is actually very sacrilegious to believe Jesus just leaves us powerless, that the all-powerful Spirit He gives us doesn't do anything to change us from the inside out.

1 John 3:
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Yes John 15:1-10 is probably my favorite passage to quote on matters like this.

 

[1stcenturylady]

Yes John 15:1-10 is probably my favorite passage to quote on matters like this.

Mine too!